William Gibson Quotes

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

The real world is horrible.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Today's world is very cruel.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

Justice is horrible.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.